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Thursday, October 25, 2018

NEW WEST 3

NEW WEST 3

The amazing
popularity of current Westerns published under the William W. Johnstone byline
have kept the Western genre selling in the millions of copies. Published by
Pinnacle Books, who specialize in paperback original action series, the Johnstone
Westerns made it possible for other Westerns to breakout, either from Pinnacle
or other publishers. Over the next few blog posts, I want to point out some of
these new Western from traditional publishers, and then move on to the booming
realm of independently published and small press Westerns. Featured in this
post...

SHOTGUN #1

C. COURTNEY JOYNER

A double-barreled avenger is born...Dr. John Bishop thought he'd seen his share
of death on the battlefields of America's great Civil War. Then his quiet life
was shattered when a gang of outlaws invaded his home, killed his family, and
tortured him within an inch of his life. John Bishop's soul may have died that
day, but his mangled body lived on. A beautiful Cheyenne named White Fox nursed
him back to health—and a gunsmith outfitted him with a special shotgun rig
where his left arm used to be. A strap across one shoulder fires it, while the
chip on the other fuels his quest for vengeance. Now the man called Shotgun
rides deep into the Colorado winter to find and kill the men who murdered
everything he once held dear. The hunt will lead him straight to the heart of a
fiendish criminal conspiracy—and force him to confront the violent legacy of
his own outlaw brother.

SHOTGUN #2THE BLEEDING GROUND

C. COURTNEY JOYNER

He lost his
arm to outlaws. Replaced it with a double-barreled boom stick. Now, Civil War
veteran Dr. John Bishop is armed for justice—and extremely dangerous. They call
him, Shotgun...John Shotgun Bishop
has tangled with plenty of lowlifes in his time—and he's got the missing limb
to prove it. But few sink as low as his own brother Devlin, a crazy-mean cuss
who'd steal the horns off the devil himself. This time, Dev's got his cold
black heart set on taking over John Chisum's land, destroying the cattle king's
dream of building a new town and laying down tracks for the railroad. So Chisum
hires Shotgun and his Cheyenne partner, White Fox, to protect his investment.
But when the Bishop family feud turns into an all-out turf war, Shotgun ends up
on the wrong side of the law—stuck in the middle between the devil he knows and
two deadly new players. Their names are Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. And this
time, there will be blood.

SHOTGUN #3THESE VIOLENT TIMES

C. COURTNEY JOYNER

Outlaws left
him with one arm, which he replaced with a specially rigged .12 gauge shotgun.
Now Dr. John Bishop has the ultimate cure for evil—one barrel at a time...Even
in the darkest days of the Civil War, Dr. John Shotgun Bishop never saw anything like the deadly plague sweeping
through the Cheyenne nation. Diseased corpses dumped in the wells of the Great
Plains. Women and children bombarded with infected blood during midnight raids.
This is the new scourge of germ warfare, and it’s threatening to wipe out
thousands of innocent lives. The culprits are a gang of renegades led by
Shotgun’s one-time protégé, a doctor driven insane by the war, and now
hell-bent on spreading pestilence across the land to witness the cleansing of the West.When the psychopath frames Shotgun for the
plague-murders, he’s forced intoa
bloody chase, with a posse of lawmen, deadly bounty hunters, and a Cheyenne war
party on his trail. Dr. John Bishop has only one choice to stop the plague, and
clear his name—load up and start shooting.

HELL HATH NO FURY

CHARLES G. WEST

In the first
of a trailblazing new series, acclaimed western author Charles G. West
introduces the legend of a man called Hawk...To start their new life together,
Jamie Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagon train bound for the Rocky
Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master
deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, blood-scorched
land. The other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but Jamie and his
bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory, but they
never come out the other side...Jamie’s brother, Monroe, enlists the legendary
scout John Hawk to find them. A hardened veteran of the range, Hawk is living
off the land in a little cabin on the Boulder River when Monroe comes begging
for his help. To rescue Jamie and his bride, Hawk—and his guns—will soon be
back in the saddle, riding fast and fierce into deadly odds. For any other man
it’s a suicide mission. For Hawk, delivering justice is what he was born to do.

NO JUSTICE IN HELL

CHARLES G. WEST

From
acclaimed storyteller Charles G. West comes a thrilling new chapter in the saga
of John Hawk, an army scout with a tracker’s eye, a cowboy’s grit—and his own
brand of justice...Three desperate women. One deranged killer. No way in hell
is John Hawk going to sit back and let the innocent get slaughtered. He first
meets the three lovely ladies as they’re fleeing in a wagon—alone—through
Blackfoot country. What’s their rush? They’re being pursued by a wanted outlaw
who wants them dead. Their only chance is to reach the Last Chance Saloon in
Helena—and John Hawk is their last hope…Hawk can track down a low-life like nobody’s
business. But this time he has to stay two steps ahead, keeping the ladies safe
and sound until they get to the saloon. There’s just one problem: the outlaw
got there first. He’s the notorious Zach Dubose. He’s waiting for Hawk and his
girls. And he’s ordering them a round vengeance with a bullet chaser—and death
on arrival.